Real Estate & Construction

#2025-26Decree No. 2025-26 of January 8, 2025, regarding the powers of the Minister in charge of housing

🇫🇷France··Other·Medium Impact·View source ↗

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🇬🇧 English

This law empowers the Minister responsible for housing to oversee housing, construction, urban planning, and urban renewal. The Minister works with various government departments to develop policies on housing quality, access to housing, and urban anti-sprawl initiatives. This affects local communities, construction firms, and urban planners who must align with these new policies.

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Key Changes

  • Empowers the Housing Minister to oversee housing and construction
  • Involves collaboration with various ministers for policy development
  • Focus on urban anti-sprawl and housing access policies

Obligations

What this law requires

high

Prepare and implement policies on housing quality, construction, renovation, habitat rehabilitation and improvement, in coordination with the Minister of Labor, Health, Solidarity and Families

Minister responsible for housing and relevant government departments
operational
high

Define and establish rules for combating substandard housing (habitat indigne) and adapting housing for aging populations and people with disabilities, in association with the Minister of Labor, Health, Solidarity and Families

Minister responsible for housing
operational
high

Establish regulations on buildings in coordination with the Ministers of Overseas France, Interior, Labor/Health/Solidarity/Families, and Ecological Transition

Minister responsible for housing and relevant government departments
operational
high

Develop and implement policies regarding access to housing, housing aid, rental relations, social housing, and housing/shelter for populations in situations of exclusion

Minister responsible for housing
operational
high

Elaborate and monitor the application of rules relating to urban planning, operational urbanism, land use, urban renewal, and anti-sprawl measures in coordination with the Minister of Ecological Transition

Minister responsible for housing
operational

Affected Parties

Local communitiesConstruction firms

Tags

housing,urban planning,government policy